The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word SCOTSMAN
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More clues leading to the result SCOTSMAN
- Northerner initially moaning on beds in sick bay
- Northerner’s sleeping-place in vessel kept up by crew
- Son gutted about beds mother makes for northerner
- Northerner gives berth on board to one of the crew
- Burns, for example, most dreadfully apparent in examination
- Robert the Bruce maybe most upset during examination
- Maybe Dundonian scams not unusual
- Northerner once seen flying along the track?
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